Planes have been grounded and businesses around the world disrupted after disruptions to Microsoft's cloud storage system.
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00:00As we mentioned earlier, companies around the world have experienced a massive IT outage.
00:06Our reporter Joy Sun has more on the extent of the problem.
00:09Businesses around the world from banks to airlines and even newscasters are suffering
00:14from major IT outages.
00:16Here you're looking at images of planes grounded in the US and Europe amid the cyber outage.
00:21It's an issue that's also thrown airports in Hong Kong and Australia into disarray.
00:27Here images of cash registers down in Australia, so really quite a widespread disruption across
00:33many corners of daily life.
00:35This is all due to a failure in Microsoft systems.
00:39The tech giant says that the outage happened around 6 p.m. on Thursday evening in the US,
00:44impacting its cloud storage systems.
00:47While it says it's back online now, many other areas around the world using Microsoft are
00:51now also experiencing problems and that includes here in Taiwan, the Taoyuan International
00:56Airport.
00:57An airport rep told Taiwan Plus that check-in systems using Microsoft were indeed down on
01:03Friday but that they are still working to calculate just how many airlines have been
01:08impacted.
01:09Some airlines have even resorted to manually checking in passengers, handwriting their
01:14tickets causing a delay of averaging one to two hours.
01:19It's unclear at the moment whether other sectors have been impacted.
01:22This is still a developing situation as to how much this outage has hit Taiwan.
01:27Yvonne?